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LOST CITIES OF ASIA by Wim -- Text & Photographs by Swaan

LOST CITIES OF ASIA

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Publisher: Putnam

Cities in Ceylon, Burma, Cambodia, once related by their bond with the fountain-head of Indian civilization, rose to greatness in the twelfth century with the building of Angkor-Wat, later fell to ruins. Writer, art-historian, architect, traveler and photographer, Wim Swaam has supplemented his own photographs with works of art in the British Museum, Musee Guimet, Metropolitan Museum, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.